Conceivers

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Those who form or devise ideas or notions through thought or creativity
2. individuals who generate new concepts or plans for various purposes
3. people engaged in the act of imagining or inventing something original

Etymology: "Conceivers" is the plural of "conceiver," a formation from "conceive" plus the agent suffix "-er," which marks a person who performs an action. The suffix has a long pedigree: it descends from Old English "-ere," itself tracing back through Latin "-arius," a suffix used to form nouns for people connected with a task or trade. English "conceive" came in through Old French "concevoir," from Latin "concipere," meaning to take in or receive, a sense that still lingers in the word's physical and bodily uses. The result is a plain, transparent compound. Its meaning follows directly from its parts: the verb "conceive" in the sense of forming an idea in the mind, and the suffix that names the one doing it. Because the noun is built freshly on English materials, it is a straightforward case with no dramatic shift in sense, and its history is essentially the history of its two parts joined together.

Synonyms: creators, originators, thinkers

Antonyms: followers, imitators